Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 40

I'll stick my horns through you, and toss you fifty feet high, and eat you up the moment you come down."

Who acts: I, you · What happens: stick, toss, eat up, come down · To what, where: horns, you, moment

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 stick	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stick	aux
3	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 horns	nmod:poss
5	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stick	obj
6	through	through	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 stick	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 toss	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 toss	cc
10	toss	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stick	parataxis
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 toss	obj
12	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 feet	nummod
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 high	obl:unmarked
14	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 toss	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eat	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eat	cc
17	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 stick	parataxis
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 eat	obj
19	up	up	ADP	_	17 eat	compound:prt
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 moment	det
21	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eat	obl:unmarked
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
23	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 moment	acl:relcl
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 come	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stick	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 stick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stick	future	I	my horns		through you	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horn=Theme through you=Destination
2	toss	present		you		high property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	eat up	infinitive		you	moment		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
4	come down	present	you	the moment not said here		down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moment=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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